Annual Providence Child Center Foundation Heart of Gold Award

March 01, 2011

Providence Child Center Foundation bestows the annual Heart of Gold Award upon compassionate citizens in our community for their dedication to improving the lives of children with special needs through advocacy and action.

The 2011 Heart of Gold Award was bestowed upon our dear friend Howard Hedinger on February 10. Howard has given an exceptional amount of time, talent and treasure to support the programs and services for children lovingly cared for at the Northwest's unique Center for Medically Fragile Children.

From helping to build a spacious multipurpose room where many children's activities take place, to providing physical therapy equipment, to helping establishing an innovative Augmentative and Alternative Communication Clinic - Howard truly has a heart of gold!

Providence Health & Services in Oregon is a not-for-profit Catholic network of hospitals, care centers, health plans, physicians, clinics, home health care and affiliated services guided by a Mission of caring that the Sisters of Providence began in the West nearly 160 years ago.